Month: August 2010

Back in Quito

Hello everyone, We were able to make the flight very well yesterday and are back in Quito today. We fly home tomorrow and will arrive in Bountiful at 11:30 that night. We have a hectic schedule leaving Quito at 6:30, to Bogota, to Miami, to Minneapolis, to SLC. We...

Ready to come home

Hello everyone, We are still back in the jungle but we have finished our work here and will be flying back to Quito this afternoon. We had a very long day yesterday. The doctors served 155 people and the dentists 121. I worked with the floride treatments for the...

Great work in the jungle

Buenos Dias everyone, We are so tired today. We were up at 6:30 and worked all day and got back to our cabin at 6:30 tonight. It was cooler today because just before noon there was rain. We were already wet from sweat but the rain cooled the air and felt wonderful. It...

accomplished so much

Just writing to you to forward to the others. We had a busy day. 136 for the dentists. 181 for the doctors. They wrote 161 prescriptions. We gave out 80 mosquito nets and did 36 fluoride treatments to kids. I was so tired when I got home I slept for an hour. It is so...

Alive in the Jungle

Hello Everyone, It has been a big day. We flew in the jet just 30 minutes over the Andes Mts into the jungle. Yes it is quite warm and humid. The flight was so interesting as we flew over the miles and miles of trees and saw the big rivers cut through the land. The...

next few weeks

Saturday we met with a group who volunteer each Christmas to go to Mexico. It was fun to see their excitement as they planned for this year. Today we spent in Orem area. Today we picked up about 8 slabs of granite and some tile from a renovation. We plan to sell them...